Tuesday, January 12, 2010

“Am”

Maybe it’s the currency of cyber-speak; maybe it’s lowbrow laziness. I can’t stand people who write or say “Am” when they must mean “I’m”. They’re too lead-lazy or dynamite-deaf to learn the difference in pronunciation. I hear it spoken everywhere, I see it in magazines, newspapers and on TV. “Am tired” of hearing people say “Am ...” anything. See how that repulses.

24 comments:

  1. Wholeheartedly agree with you. I hate, hate, hate it!

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  2. My sentiments exactly!....I'm ashamed to say though, that I see this on such a regular basis that for a while I begun to think that I was wrong! Hope you're well, hope this new year is a blast.

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  3. I still find things like this irritating but unfortunately that's the law of linguistics for you. Languages evolve and adapt according to society and unfortunately, there's not much we can do about it!

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  4. Am another one who hates that (*lol*)! Another of my favorite pet peeves is text language that is so popular these days. I think it is meant to shorten texts but now is being used for emails and twitter. It just ends up sounding like very bad English. U know what I mean lyk...Enuff alredi! I h8 dat! Anyway, tek care!

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  5. Oh Nana, "am" quite offended here!...lol... just kidding! Seriously! That's not the only thing that drives me crazy sometimes. Some people don't know when to use they're, their, there. You'll be surprised what you hear in the medical field too. There's a nifty little thing called SCD's(sequential compression device) and I hear people call it STD's all the time!....grrr...I could go on all day!

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  6. evolution for sankofa. but i agree - when we're too lazy to do things the right (and difficult) way, we just evolve an easy way, and that takes hold.

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  7. hmm, abena serwaa, i use text lingua too. but it remains there.

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  8. std's, maxine? loooooooooooooooooooooooool!

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  9. I just wanna cry when I see or hear people use 'am' the wrong way! Maybe I should. It's crazy. Just throw an 'I' infront of the 'am' and we will all be happy.

    Another thing that drives me crazy when when people write "I COULD OF" Aaaarrrgggghhhh!!!!!

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  10. hehe..I'm guilty in this area, my bad. You can't help it..better still I'll just agree with everyone. :-P

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  11. Ha ha. Well, how do you feel about 'prizes' going up Ghana? I cringe every time I hear people say 'prize' instead of 'price'. I almost died listening to a bunch of 'experts' debating whether Ghanaians were better off a year after Mills took office, and every single one of them said 'prize' when they meant 'price'.

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  12. Nana, Am the same, LOL.

    Raine, I wonder what they're thinking? @I could of...

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  13. Hahahahahahaha
    Raine, that's exactly what I was going to say. Could of?? I've heard school teachers & college graduates in the US say that. It makes my skin scratch me (A nurse once asked me if my skin was scratching me. You know... itching)

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  14. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu13 January, 2010

    What about the word "cost" as used in, for example, "the accident COST the man his arm". Ghanaian journalists, especially, have always rendered is "CAUSED". Wonder who'll correct them. Nana Yaw, please relax.

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  15. yeah, raine, could of so jars....

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  16. now, juanita, you know you CAN help it.

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  17. that's one of my peeves, NYB, "prizes". They also say "Dezember". How do you pronounce a "c" like a "z" in english?

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  18. we're all correcting "them" and one another, no, Kwame M-B?

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  19. Must confess I went back and re-read my post to see if I had used 'am' - I must confess to using it a couple of time. Ok, maybe more than a couple.

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  20. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu14 January, 2010

    Point taken,Nana. But mine is quite spot on. Or? lol.

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